Posted on 06/13/2013 4:10:57 AM PDT by Biggirl
Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an "implosion" in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever. What comes next -- or even before then -- will be price variances at movie theaters, where "you're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln." He also said that Lincoln came "this close" to being an HBO movie instead of a theatrical release.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Pop for the extra 50 cents at redbox for the blu ray, it’s worth it.
Or regular DVD.
***George Lucas agreed that massive changes are afoot, including film exhibition morphing somewhat into a Broadway play model, whereby fewer movies are released, they stay in theaters for a year and ticket prices are much higher.***
I remember back in the early 1970s when some movies (ANDROMEDA STRAIN or PATTON) would play in a theater for months as a first run movie.
Then go to second run theaters for a few days.
Then go to TV as a chopped up movie.
I remember when independent film makers would rent a theater for one day during the week to run a movie. It was called “4 walling”.
The advertisements on TV would run a quick trailer, then a voice over repeating the names real fast of the towns the film would be playing. ONE DAY ONLY! DONT MISS IT!
I haven’t been to a movie in 20 years. Have no intention of ever going again.
Not about to give one thin dime of my money to people in the movie industry who hate me and my country, but think it is fine to get rich mocking me.
To hell with these pretty liberal idiots who play the parts of other people’s lives.
He’s right.
At least Mr. Speilberg is SPOT ON in this regards.
Plus RIGHT NOW, with all the most recent current events going on, they are doing a better job writing the scripts.
***There’s going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen megabudget movies are going to go crashing into the ground, and that’s going to change the paradigm.”***
Much like the overblown MUSICALS and COMEDIES of the 1960s and 1970s.
STAR
SONG OF NORWAY
the WIZ
DR DOLITTLE (Richard Harrison)
Comedies
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES
THE GREAT RACE
THOSE FANTASTIC FLYING FOOLS
THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY JALOPIES
While funny, they were too long and WAY overproduced.
I was never bored with LAWRENCE OF ARABIA or BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI or THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.
Another bit to consider is that when computer generated characters are perfected, live actors will not be needed. AAnother plus will be that any person (or famous actor) can be resurrected and star in the next blockbuster movie.
No actors. No fortunes to imbeciles. No blowhards telling us how to live.
Downside: Ronald Reagan can be filmed in any sort of leftist fantasy film they choose - and they will choose to do so. Goebbels will look like a total piker.
The only version of “Dr. Doolittle” I liked was the Eddy Murphy version.
At least the Murphy version was a little more funnier.
***Hollywood has not figured out that CG and sex scenes cannot take the place of a good plot yet,****
I USED to enjoy the IFC channel on TV when they put on good foreign made movies. There were some really good plots in those films even though you had to read subtitles.
Even the foreign si-fi movies showed a better imagination than the zombie crap out of Hollywood.
Then IFC went commercial and now their movies are crap.
Good.
Can’t wait.
Note to the GOP: Don’t bail these morons out. Let them fail and fail big.
Movies can be “rented” for free at your local library.
Note to Steven Spielberg: I don’t care when Hollywood implodes. As far as I am concerned, tomorrow would be just delightful. Let Hollywood choke on its vile brew.
“The last movie I went to see, James Bond’s “Skyfall””
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I have not even heard of it, but my satellite service
played all of the old Bond movies over a two week period.
It was great, and brought back old memories.
$3 was my limit.
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